Actually you know what, I think we already have something similar to this but we would like to remove the value instead of using the name and value in the url.
Eg. instead of http://www.ourwebsite.com/product-name-sku-01 we'd like http://www.ourwebsite.com/product-name > Hi Jon, that's really interesting and thank you for the advice! > > I had an idea that something like this would be required, it's just > setting up the right system to accommodate. > > Do you freelance? Would you be interested in helping me out on this > project? It is somewhat outside my area of comfort! > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > Though Im a huge fan of CB, heres really no need for Coldbox, if > all > > you want is the SES URL functionality, plus CW isnt really designed > > > in a way that plays well with frameworks. I had a CartWeaver site > set > > up a few years ago with SES urls. The steps to modify are, > basically, > > as follows: > > > > 1) create a unique slug/tag column on all of your categories and > > products and populate those using the a regex slugification of > > category/product name. (Youll need to add the form field in the > admin > > for the cats and products as well - or you can auto-create it on > save > > and edit it later) > > > > 2) create a tag lookup function for categories and products that > > pulls the slug, based on the ID > > > > 3) call that function from your cat/subcat/production landing pages > > > using an > > > > if(isNumeric(id)){ > > //Look up your tag from the id and redirect here... > > } > > > > and use a 301 redirect to the SES url page - this will allow all of > > > the CW generated links to resolve correctly, or you can replace the > id > > in the url with the slug variable. > > > > The above assumes you have mod_rewrite or are using one of the IIS > > rewrite options. > > > > Youll need to create some sort of redirect rules in place to > pretty > > up the extension pages and handle the > category->subcategory->product > > links (name/value pairs work well here), but there are all sorts of > > > examples and tutorials for mod-rewrite, ISAPI rewrite and IIS URL > > Rewriting out there. > > > > HTH, > > Jon > > > > > > On Feb 10, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Matt Gibson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi guys, some advice or guidance would be great on this please. > > > > > > We are using Cartweaver 3 and have basic redirects setup for our > > category pages, product pages and brand pages. > > > > > > In my opinion the redirects are very logical and work well, > however > > we have been advised by our SEO company that we now need to tidy the > > > links up making them just contain pertinent information rather than > > > containing id's etc. Also the ability to add forward slashes to each > > > level of category apparently is important too. > > > > > > So after researching around it seems Coldbox with SES urls is the > > > way to go, my question is is this possible with Cartweaver and if so > > > will it require a complete rebuild of the site or can I integrate it > > > without much disruption? > > > > > > FYI > > > > > > Our first level categories go to > > > subcat.cfm > > > > > > Our second levels go to > > > subsubcat.cfm > > > > > > Our third level categories go to > > > results.cfm > > > > > > and our product pages go to > > > details.cfm > > > > > > I am a novice when it comes to Coldfusion, I understand the > language > > but I'm not sure where to start with this. Please help! > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357653 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
